Students to submit ideas on how to beat hate crimes

January 08 2010

A Devon teacher is becoming part of a judging panel for a competition among schoolchildren across the country to find ways to beat hate crime, a report has said.

Crediton teacher Mark Baptist, a humanities teacher at Queen Elizabeth's Community College in Crediton, was very keen to participate somehow in the competition, the news report added.

"Racism isn't a big problem in Devon but the county is not a very multicultural place. When I take pupils to big cities they interact with youngsters from other backgrounds. I can see the change in them when they get back," Mr Baptist was quoted as saying by the Express & Echo.

Staff at schools in Devon are encouraging students to think about prejudice and ways to tackle it.

The news comes as a county-wide competition is being run by the prejudice and hate crime prevention task group to avoid this issue in the classroom.

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